Clothes-line support.



J. T. PILKINGTON.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5, 191a. RENEWED JULY 2 1914. 1,1 30,534.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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JOHN THOMAS PILKmG-TON,

ONE-THIRD TO PATRICK HENRY .MURPHY, OF ENDERBY, BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

CLOTHES -LINE SUPPORT.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

i Application flled'July 5, 1913, Serial No. 777,596. Renewed July 23, 1914. Serial No. 852,760.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN T. PILKINGTON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Enderby, in the Province of British Columbia and Dominion of Canada,-v have inventeda new and Improved Clothes.

Line Support, of which the following is a My invention relates to means for supporting a pulley line, and particularly to supporting means adapted to be aifixed to the side of a house and to a ost, or totwo posts or other equivalent uprights.

An object of my invention is toprovide pulley supporting means so arranged that a free space is provided at all sides of the pulleys so that an endless clothes line, with clothes hung thereon,-may'freely pass, with the clothes, around both pulleys.

A further object of the invention is to rovide pivoted pulley-supporting arms aving guard pulleys to prevent the'clothes'" line from leaving the main pulleys regardless of the angular positions of said arms, and also to provide pivoted brace elements adjustable to engage the pulley arms in different positions of the latter.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.-

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the' views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the clothes line support embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a partial plan View on a larger scale; and Fig. 3 is a partial end view of one of the supporting devices.

In carrying out my invention similar supporting means are providedfor each end of the line and adapted respectively to be secured to posts, or to a house and posts, there being shown in the present example a post 10 and also a line 10 which may indicate the side of a house. It will suflice to describe in detail one of the sets of supporting devices. I

My improved device comprises a vertical pin 11, adapted to turn in brackets 12 or other suitable supports, which may be secured in place by nails or screws 13. An arm 14 is secured to a clip 15 on the pin 11, so as to turn in a horizontal plane, or

approximately so, the said arm being con- .nected with the'clipby a horizontal piv t any suitable manner, as by a keeper 18.

ENDERBY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR 0F 7 A brace arm 19 is employed in connection with the arm 14, and extends from a clip- 15 on 'the upper end of the vertical pin 11- downward diagonally to the outer end of said arm 14. The brace 19 is pivotally conw nected with the clip 15, as at 19, to have movement in the vertical plane, and its lower end is adapted to engage a rack 20, the arrangement being such that the arm 14 can be given an inclination to suit the. extent of sag in the line dueto the weightof the clothes, and the brace 19 will hold the said arm 14 in the adjusted position. Thus there will be no tendency of the line to'leave the pulleys. When the line is empty, if it is a short light one, the weight g of, the pulleys and their arms will cause them to drop lower, and in this case the braces 19 will slip along the racks 20. At

the outer end of the arm 14 I may provide a transverse pin or shaft 21 carrying guard sheaves 22 disposed at a right angle to the plane of rotation of the pulley 17 for holding the line Aagainst displacement.

It will be observed that the guard pulleys 2-2 are above and directly adjacent to the clothes line and its path of movement to and from the main pulleys 17, and that these guard pulleys are carried by the arms 14 nearer the free ends of the arms than the said main pulleys; also that the main pulleys are peripherally grooved. By this arrangement the provision of guard pulleys at the upper side only of the line serves to prevent the line from slipping from the main pulleys, and furthermore the line is permitted a direct path to and from the main pulleys without any sidewise deflection. Moreover, as the arms 14 swing downwardly, due to the sagging of the line when clothes are hung thereon, the guard pulleys determine the point of bending of the line distant from the main pulleys whereby to resist the tendency of the clothes line to leave the main pulleys when the arms assume an angle to the general direction 'of the line.

of the line, and a brace arm pivoted to swing in a vertical plane and movably engaging with the ulley-supporting arm to accommodate itse f vto a, downward movement of the latter.

2. In a clothes line support, a pulley-carrying arm, a pulley thereon, a rack on the upper side of the arm, the said arm being pivoted to assume a downward inclination, and an arm above the pulley-supporting arm, pivoted at one end to rock in a vertical plane, the free end of the second mentioned arm engaging the rack on the pulley-supporting arm.

3. In a clothes line support,'a vertical pin, securing devices for the pin, clips on the pin at its upper and lower ends respectively, a pulley-supporting arm pivotally connected with the lower clip to rock in a vertical plane, a brace arm pivoted to the upper clip to swing in a vertical plane, a pulley on the under side of the first arm, and a rack on,

the upper side of said arm, the brace arm extending diagonally downward and engaging by its free end with the said rack.

4. A clothes line and support comprising arms pivoted at one end to swing in a vertical plane, main pulleys on said arms near the free ends, an endless clothes line running around said pulleys, and guard pulleys carried by the pivoted arms to swing therewith, said guard pulleys turning on horizontal axes and said main pulleys turning in planes approximately at right angles to the planes ,in which the guard pulleys turn, said guard JOHN THOMAS PILKINGTON.

Witnesses:

MARY E. PILKINGTON, ELVIN PILKINGTON. 

